Limmy Quotes

… if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

I think debate is good. Everyone has an opinion, and it's definitely healthy to voice those.

I invite a variety people on my show with wide-ranging opinions - sometimes even my jaw hits the floor, too - but I let them speak. Whether it's left, right, or center, I want to expose my viewers to other perspectives. Agree with them or not, the nation needs to listen.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

If a book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides if we choose.

This is an increasingly diversifying society, and people are coming into much closer contact with each other than they ever did. I find that a problem for a university, because bumping up against people who disagree with you is fundamental to the creation of new knowledge. And so universities can't go silent. You can't have a place where it's not permitted to make a certain kind of argument. But you can have a place which forbids epithets to be thrown at people.

Brown’s core value of promoting the free and open exchange of ideas is bedrock to our capacity to fulfill our mission as a university. This value applies not only when ideas are agreeable and aligned with our own. Protecting the right to free expression and promoting open discourse is even more essential when ideas are divergent, abhorrent or even hurtful.

America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard.

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

People can voice their different points of view. We are also a country where there will be criticism.

Instead of silencing speakers on campus, perhaps do what you're supposed to in college instead: listen to someone who thinks differently than you do.

It is not undemocratic to express one's difference of opinion.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.